An interesting Zogola cross?

[Tania]

Originally Posted by bitterwort

I got one from the same apparent cross from Zogola seeds I grew a couple years ago, seed purchased from Sand Hill that year (packet said "packed for 2006"). I posted a photo of it on that other tomato forum that shall go unnamed, wondering if anyone knew what it was. Craig, you made a guess and Carolyn, I believe, suggested I contact Glenn, which I did. There the tale ends.

I planted a bunch of the seeds that year (I was growing seedling for our community garden sale) and all were regular leaf seedlings. The one I kept for my own plot had fruits just like those Tania shows. I managed to successfully bag blossoms and save seeds in case was interested in what I then described as a "lovely fig-shaped, orangey-red, somewhat seedy, disease-prone but very vigorous RL indet. plant with fruit that drops off the vine when ripe." ;-) No, not a lot of people clamoring for seeds so far.

bitterwort, your seeds from Sandhill likely came from the same batch as mine (2005 seeds (or earlier) is what is usually labelled 'for 2006') . So maybe something was mixed up on their end that particular year... the question is what variety was that? Or, could be a cross...
You noted that fruits dropped off the vines - my memory fails me here, I do not remember how mine behaved, my notes do not say anything about that. I could not judge disease tolerance, as my 2009 tomato garden was practically disease free due to the wonderful weather we had (which is not typical here).

[spkfero]

Look likes Goldman Italian That I grew Out
In 2009, From Seeds From Sandhill
A Heavy Tomato for it Size


gene

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by spkfero

Look likes Goldman Italian That I grew Out
In 2009, From Seeds From Sandhill
A Heavy Tomato for it Size


gene

Gene, it couldn't be Goldman Italian b'c Glenn just started listing that one recently, either for 2009 or for 2008, I didn't check, and Tania's seeds were from 2005 or 2006, I didn't go back to check on that either.

Tania, thanks for clearing up the situation. So only one plant /fruits such as you pictured. I can't think of any other variety that Glenn lists that would look like that one.

[Tania]

Folks,

Did anyone (who I sent the seed to, of course ) try this 'cross' out this season?

Unfortunately my 6 'Zogola Pear' plants were victim of the late blight that hit my garden in early August, and all I can say is that 1 plant had small fruits with this distinctive pear shape, but the other plants did not even have fruit set when they died.

So I am interested to see if anybody grew it and see if it is stable (a.k.a seed mixup) vs. an accidental cross.

Tania